Word: thanom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government reacted sharply by kicking both out of the country...
...Soviet Union. Many of Bangkok's dozens of newspapers were accepting Red bribes in return for attacking Sarit and the U.S. The embittered aristocrats who dream of re-creating the Thailand of the past were giving covert support to the Communists and other opposition leaders. Premier Thanom, who had not wanted his job in the first place, seemed to be floundering...
...national elections, in which most of his own candidates won in a walkaway. Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat has been casting around for a suitable Premier. Last week, between bouts with a chronically bad liver, Marshal Sarit named his man: stocky, mild-mannered, 46-year-old Lieut. General Thanom Kittikhachorn (whose polysyllabic last name means "widespreadreputation...
...General Thanom, a longtime crony of Sarit's and assistant commander in chief (under Sarit) of the army, was diffident about taking up his new post. Said the new Premier: "I'm unprepared to take up the premiership, but cannot refuse because it is a call to duty. Besides, this appointment demands someone well versed in foreign affairs, and I'm not. I cannot even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics...